Disorders were narrowly averted today when a parade of thousands of anti-Fascists was pelted with bags of flour and soot while passing branch headquarters of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts.
The hurling of bags began at the signal, “Heil Mosley,” shouted from the street curb. Parade marshals with difficulty restrained the marchers from charging the Fascist headquarters. One person was arrested.
Despite heavy rain, the largest number of persons in recent years to participate in an anti-Fascist demonstration in London’ East End marched to Victoria Park, where Herbert Morrison, Laborite leader and head of the London County Council, charged the incident was deliberately calculated to provoke a riot.
He demanded that the Government act firmly against Fascists invading the East End to cause trouble. That predominantly Jewish quarter has been the scene of widespread anti-Semitic propaganda and Fascist terrorism in recent months.
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